Baruch History Department

HIS 4900 – Capstone - The World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans Class: 26774 Section: ETRA Days & Times: TuTh 2:30-3:45 Instructor: Charlotte Brooks Instruction Mode: In Person Prerequisites: Two 3000-level history classes 3 hours, 3 credits During World War II, the US government incarcerated without hearing or trial the 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. Two-thirds were citizens, one-third immigrants who at that time could not become US citizens because of their race. Commonly known as the “Japanese American internment," the incarceration is of enduring interest to historians and non-historians alike and has particular resonance in our own time. After reading a considerable amount of scholarship about the incarceration and its aftermath, students will conduct primary source research on some aspect of it and write a substantial, original paper about their topic. The course will also examine how and where to do this research, how to structure and write a research paper, and how to preserve academic integrity.

History Department. Spring 2026 Electives. In Spring 2026, history is revolutionary. In addition to our innovative electives. Look out for events related to our ongoing 250: An Independent History Series. As we mark 250 years of United States independence, the History Department is organizing workshops, events, and talks about this important event. Join us, and the entire Baruch community, in understanding the context and ideas that led to independence, and what they mean to us today.

HIS 3012 – The Ancient World: Rome Class: 26420 Section: EMA Days & Times: Mo 2:30-3:45pm Instructor: Charlotte Fiehn Instruction Mode: Hybrid asynchronous Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits This course will survey the history of Rome from its beginnings to the fourth century CE. It will consider the political, economic, religious, social, and cultural developments of the Romans in the context of Rome's growth from a small settlement in central Italy to the dominant power in the Mediterranean world. Special attention will be given to such topics as urbanism, imperialism, the development of Roman law, and the influence of Greek culture. The course will introduce different types of sources: literary, epigraphically, archaeological, etc. and students will learn how to use them as historical documents. HIS 3363 – Topics in European History – Atlantic Revolutions Class: 26772 Section: ETA Days & Times: Tu 2:30-3:45 Instructor: Elizabeth Heath Instruction Mode: Hybrid Asynchronous Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. This class will explore this pivotal event, situating it within a much larger context of Atlantic revolutions that includes the French and Haitian Revolutions. We will explore the economic, political, cultural, social, and intellectual context out of which these three revolutions arose as well as the competing definitions of liberty, equality, fraternity, and property they generated.

HIS 3430 – World War II: A Global History Class: 27483 Section: DMWA Days & Times: MoWe 12:50-2:05 Instructor: Thomas Heinrich Instruction Mode: In person Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits This course examines the military, political, and social history of World War II, a global conflict that cost more than 55 million lives and fundamentally transformed world affairs. Topics include: the war’s origins in Europe and Asia; military strategies; major battles in key war theatres; industrial mobilization; and genocide. HIS 3460 – Topics in American History – America in the 1990s Class: 46918 Section: EMWA Days & Times: MoWe 2:30-3:45 Instructor: Katharine Uva Instruction Mode: In person Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits This course examines the major political, social, and cultural trends shaping American life in the 1990s. Topics include: changing geopolitical relationships after the end of the Cold War, domestic terrorism, the rise of personal computers and the internet, neoliberalism, culture wars and pop culture trends. We will also consider the legacy of the 1990s and how the decade has been remembered since it ended.

HIS 3860 – Special Topics in African, Asian, and Latin America – Oral History and Ethnographic Methods in Africana History Class: 27835 Section: NETA Days & Times: N/a Instructor: T.J. Desch-Obi Instruction Mode: Online asynchronous Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits Many pre-colonial African societies did not have a writing tradition, therefore since the advent of African history as a discipline, it has focused on very distinct methodologies from other historians. These are not merely last-resort recourse for those who lack access to more traditional archival sources, but rather constitute archives themselves that irrevocably adjust our perspective on the past and its relationship to our present. This course covers three topics: (1) learning about the range of ethnographic methods of African historians, (2) a focus on the benefits and challenges of oral history in the reconstruction of the Africana past (3) learning how to conduct and use oral history. The overriding emphasis will be on the production of a professionally conducted, transcribed, and contextualized oral history project. This course requires a willingness to learn digital methods of submitting course projects to archival preservation.

Our catalog of electives for the @baruch.cuny.edu spring 2026 semester is published! From ancient Rome to the US in the 1990s, everything has a history - and we're covering it next semester!

Vital City | Bringing the Fun Back to Fun City: Mamdani, Mailer and Breslin What the mayoral frontrunner seems to have learned from the insurgents of a half-century ago

Congrats to @baruch.cuny.edu history department's Gabriel Tennen on his recent and timely article in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social on what history can tell us about the New York mayoral election. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...

LARR 60.3 is out now! My article on Sor Juana and her transoceanic enigmas:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social

Cover of the book, Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century by Zoe Griffith

🚨Upcoming faculty publication! Congrats to @baruch.cuny.edu history prof. @zoegriffith.bsky.social on the upcoming publication of her new book, Egypt's Mediterranean, with @ucpress.bsky.social. www.ucpress.edu/books/egypts...

The Declaration of Independence at 250: New Perspectives. Featuring Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, Carol Berkin. Thursday, October 23, 12:30, NVC 14-250

The @baruch.cuny.edu community is invited to our kick-off event for the series, 250: An Independent History. We're marking 250 years of US Independence in 2025-26 and we're kicking off the event with our very own distinguished historian, Carol Berkin. See you on October 23!

HISTORY EDITION - Baruch College Ranks No. 1 Email from Weissman School of Arts and Sciences The Weissman Newsletter No Images Displaying? View as Webpage. NEWS AND UPDATES October 3, 2025 Announcing the New Department Spotlight Rotation Start

This First Friday @baruch.cuny.edu Weissman School of Arts and Sciences Newsletter features our department! Check out the recent exciting news, events, and accomplishments: myemail.constantcontact.com/HISTORY-EDIT...

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Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...

Congrats to @baruch.cuny.edu history prof. @profbrooks.bsky.social for your new book from @ucpress.bsky.social.

Today @baruch.cuny.edu history professor @markricehistory.bsky.social was interviewed by @cnnipr.bsky.social about controversies surrounding #MachuPicchu.

New York City Latin American History Workshop. Pre-registration required. Fridays 11am-1pm. Baruch College, Room 8-210. Presenters: September 26: Rafael Cesar (Princeton University) "Factionalism: The Cuban-Angolan Politics of Racelessness at the Dawn of Angolan Independence (1975-1979) October 31: Pablo Pryluka (City College of New York) "Advertising: Does This Business Kill? Consuming Development in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile" November 21: T.J. Desch-Obi (Baruch College) "With the Flat of a Machete: The History of Afro-Colombian Martial Arts." February 6: Emmanuel Velayos (Hostos Community College) "The Provisional State: Simón Rodriguez and the Layout of Hybrid Republics." March 6: Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania) "The Price of Democracy: The Plano Cruzado and the Limits of Economic Reform in 1980s Brazil." April 17: Nicolas Allen (Stony Brook University) "Noisy Neighbors and Intimate Sounds: The Phonograph in Early 20th-Century Brazil." To register and receive the workshop paper, please contact Stephanie Luciano, stephanie.lucianoperez@baruch.cuny.edu

We're excited to once again host the New York City Latin American History Workshop at @baruch.cuny.edu. Check out the presenters, our schedule, and registration info:

Faculty Authors. Congratulations to Prof. Anna Boozer on her new book - At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology.

Congrats to Prof. Anna Boozer. Her book, At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology, is now available in paperback: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Congrats to Baruch history prof. Martina Nguyen on the opening of her new co-curated exhibition, The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War.

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And a new semester dawns on Baruch. We're looking forward to starting a new academic year with returning students and new members of the Baruch community at @cuny.edu

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🚨TENURE TRACK JOB OPENING🚨 South Asian History

We are looking to hire an assistant professor who specializes in the history of South Asia to join our department at @baruch.cuny.edu. Information and link to apply here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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Yesterday, students from our History of Tourism class taught by @markricehistory.bsky.social organized a historical walking tour of Madison Sq. Park. Students researched and presented about various sites in and around the park - part of our department's commitment to experiential learning.

Congrats to Baruch history prof. @markricehistory.bsky.social. His work is published in the new series, Perú Global from the Fondo Editorial de la Universidad del Pacífico in Lima.

Truck supervisor Bernard Levey with his family in front of their home in the new Levittown, Pa., housing development in 1950. (Bernard Hoffman/Time Life/Getty Images)

Women's History Month spotlight: students in "Women and Gender during the Cold War" conduct research on relevant topics of their choice, focusing on methodologies of gender history. Learn about their research at Baruch's Reseach and Creative Inquiry Expo in May! blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=336

Map titled, "Palestine, with the Hauran, and the adjacent districts," published by Charles Knight & Co in 1843.

Students in our Women and Gender in the Middle East course use @wikieducation.bsky.social to improve Wikipedia articles on relevant topics. Today's student profile is history major William Alex Wong, expanding an article on Women in Palestine. blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=327 #WomensHistoryMonth

Dr. Brown giving a lecture on Black visual culture.

Dr. Brown meeting with Baruch history students

Thank you, Parsons School of Design prof. Dr. Jonathan Michael Square for presenting at the history department's Friedman Lecture on Tuesday. Dr. Square presented on how curators document and curate Black visual culture and later met with history students.

For Women's History Month, we're recognizing the excellent work of students in @zoegriffith.bsky.social's course Women & Gender in the Middle East, in which students edit Wikipedia pages on relevant topics. History major Amalia Parrish researchs Islamic clothing: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=323

Student (looking around the @baruchhistory.bsky.social reception area): This kinda looks like a doctor’s office

Me (barely hiding my joy at getting the perfect set up for dad joke of the week): Well, technically…

Books: Seine Kid - The Magazine Antiques Since 1922, The Magazine ANTIQUES has been America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design.

Recently, the collaborate history, The Sweet Life: The Sweet Life: Julius Leblanc Stewart and Painting the Belle Époque featuring the work of Baruch history professor Vincent DiGirolamo, received a glowing review: www.themagazineantiques.com/article/book...

Tomorrow! Dr. Jonathan Michael Square, Asst. Prof. of Black Visual Culture at the Parsons School of Design will present "Looking Back to the Future: Realizing the Afric-American Picture Gallery"

Mar. 25, 12:45pm in NVC 5-165

Sponsored by the Department of History and the Robert A. Friedman Seminar

Great event hosted by @iehs.bsky.social event on the Page Act featuring Baruch history's @profbrooks.bsky.social!

We're excited to welcome Dr. Jonathan Michael Square, Asst Prof of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design, to Baruch on Tues to give a public lecture, "Looking Back to the Future: Realizing the Afric-American Picture Gallery," 3/25 12:45pm in VC 5-165 baruch.event.cuny.edu/events/BxuT4...